29 June 2010

america has just announced after more than 70 days that its ready to accept assistance from 12 foreign countries.

danny schechter, with mediachannel.org says that after all the experiments they tried to cap the well ... failing, "their faith in the relief wells is now being tested."

however,

"red tape, including bp's stance, is preventing other companies who volunteered oil collection boats are being rebuffed, by bp and the coast guard according to a french company as reported in new orleans.

even as local officials complain that not enough boats or vessels have been deployed to collect the oil in water before it hits land. this is a big issue about whether to reach out to people in other countries."